Incident MiG-15 ,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 88395
 
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Date:Thursday 13 December 1951
Time:
Type:Silhouette image of generic MG15 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
MiG-15
Owner/operator:People's Liberation Army Air Force - PLAAF
Registration:
MSN:
Fatalities:Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Location:Anju area -   North Korea
Phase: Combat
Nature:Military
Departure airport:ZYDD
Destination airport:
Confidence Rating: Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources
Narrative:
PLAAF 14th FAD 40th Regiment. Shot down by Col Benjamin S. Preston(4th FIW HQ), full admitted. One of the seven MiGs losses by the PLAAF this day(Eight MiG were losses Dec 13, 1951: seven PLAAF and one V-VS). The PLAAF 14th FAD 40th Regiment, pay de price of the inexperiencie of his pilots: the 7 MiG losses belong to the Division.All the Chinese pilots ejected but one died when his parachute failed to open.The F-86s came in behind the MiGs of the 14th PLAAF 14D before coult even drop their wings tanks.USAF losses were two F-86s, one by MiG of the PLAAF 3th FAD 9th Regiment.

Sources:

Air War Korea 1950-1953 / Robert Jackson, 1998
U.S. Air-to-Air Victories during the Korean War / ACIG Korean War Team - http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_307.shtml
Fighter Combat over Korea Part 2: Jet Aces (In: Wings of Fame Vol.2, 1996)
L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson,X.Zhang,Y. Pepelyayev,S.Kramarenko.

Revision history:

Date/timeContributorUpdates
11-Jan-2011 14:00 ASN archive
25-Apr-2011 01:45 Daniel Nole Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Departure airport, Source, Narrative]

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